5. What I have learnt – Front Cover
• I have learnt that the less is more.
• For example on my College magazine I used a lot of colours as it would be more visually
appealing and fun as the audience is 16-18 year olds at College but for my music
magazine I had to make it more mature as my audience is 16-25 year olds and therefore I
used only three main colours.
• I think by using less colours its definitely more attractive as its more mature and
sophisticated which emphasizes the sophistication of RnB as a genre.
6. What I have learnt - Contents
• How to use InDesign confidently – Biggest achievement was
creating the ‘R’ in the background. I think it looked really effective
and was a progression from my College magazine as I never
used any effects on my College magazine.
• Less is more – The contents page looks mature and classy as the
colour scheme is simple yet attractive and appealing.
• I have learnt how to use InDesign much better which has enabled
me to use different effects such as drop box shadows on my
images to make them stand out. I have also learnt how to import
different fonts such as the font I have used from dafont.com,
instead of using the ones already provided which is what I used
on my college magazine. This shows my progression.
• I have also learnt how to make things neater, for example on my
College magazine, text is overlapping onto the box its in and the
box lines are visible.
• Whereas on my Music magazine, the text is in a box but you cant
see the lines of the box and the text is situated neatly inside it.
This makes the magazine look tidy and orderly and shows my
development from the preliminary task.
7. What I have learnt – Double page
spread
• Obviously, I have learnt how to create a double page spread as my College magazine
never had one.
8. Creating the double page spread
• To make the double page spread I had to use InDesign to add and conjoin two pages together, as shown below.
Then once
Firstly, I they were able
clicked ‘Allow to shuffle
pages to around I
shuffle’ which dragged the
meant that I page that I
could start to wanted to be
move the next to each
pages in the other and
order I made sure that
wanted them. the thick, black
line as shown
below was
joining the two
pages
together. This
linked the
pages.
9. • Because I had never made a double page spread before, it meant that I had to
research and analyse double page spreads from similar RnB magazines.
• I have learnt how to use Photoshop and InDesign to create the spread and how to
make it conform to the conventions of similar double page spreads such as the
interview separated into columns, the interviewers name – ‘Written by ..’, photography
recognition- ‘Photos by ..’, quotations from interview, stand first and images.
Stand
first
Images
Columns
Photos by
Written by
10. Overall
• In conclusion I think that I have progressed very far from my College
magazine.
• I have learnt how to use Photoshop more successfully by using
tools such as outer glow, magic wand and creating shapes.
• I also think that I have become more organised when using
PhotoShop as at the start I had un used layers as I wasn’t sure how
to add or delete them, so by learning from my mistakes I am now
very organised in making the layout by using layers more efficiently
and neatly.
• I have also learnt how to use InDesign to the best of its advantage
but doing new things that I didn’t know before such as making drop
shadows and altering the transparency of texts.
• I have enjoyed this task and feel that I have progressed so much
from my College magazine to making a professional looking Music
Magazine.
